Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 3

She went inside and came back with a saucer of milk and an old towel.» Nobody says Nell is kind and patient, but her actions show it: she helps even after the kitten hisses.

Who acts: Nell, Nobody, actions, kitten · What happens: go, come back, say, be, show, help · To what, where: kitten · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nell, Nobody, actions, kitten), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 saucer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 saucer	det
9	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 milk	case
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saucer	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 towel	cc
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 towel	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 towel	amod
15	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 milk	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
18	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
20	Nell	Nell	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 kind	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 kind	cop
22	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 says	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 patient	cc
24	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kind	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 show	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 show	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 actions	nmod:poss
28	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 show	nsubj
29	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 show	obj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 helps	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 helps	nsubj
33	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
34	even	even	ADV	_	38 hisses	advmod
35	after	after	SCONJ	_	38 hisses	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 kitten	det
37	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hisses	nsubj
38	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 helps	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Nell		inside property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come back	past	Nell not said here		with a saucer of milk and a old towel	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Nobody			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	Nell		kind property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		Nell not said here			tree rules
6	show in a quote	present	Nell's actions	kitten		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
7	help in a quote	present	Nell			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	hiss in a quote	present	the kitten			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	act in a quote		Nell			nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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